Famous People with Name Antanas

Antanas Guoga            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Antanas Guoga: more commonly known as Tony G, is a businessman and professional poker player. As a child, he was the Rubik's Cube champion of Lithuania before moving to Melbourne, Australia at the age of 11. He has played poker since the age of 18, and is known for his outlandish table talk and aggressive play, and frequent intimidation of his opponents. Despite this, many poker professionals and dealers have pointed out that away from the table, Tony is quite personable and easygoing. He had a fifth place finish in the World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris 2003. In June 2003, he won back-to-back tournaments in Russia, winning nearly $20,000. He finished in the money twice at the 2004 World Series of Poker in Seven-card stud and Pot Limit Texas hold 'em tournaments and three months later earned his then biggest tournament money finish in the WPT Grand Prix de Paris 2004 where his second place finish to England's Surinder Sunar earned him $414,478. In November 2006, he won the Asian Poker Tour event held in Singapore, walking away with $451,700 half of which he indicated he will give to Asian and Australian charities to be nominated by Betfair.